They cover adultery, false accusations in court, property crimes and prohibition of drugs and alcohol. In , MPs passed the Women Protection Law, removing rape and adultery cases from the religious system. Some 12 of Nigeria's 36 states -- all in the north -- apply sharia to criminal cases. Courts can order amputations, although few have ever been carried out. Flogging is still on the statute books as a punishment for Muslims who drink alcohol or have illicit sexual relations, but is rarely used.
The punishment for adultery is technically lashes. Adultery is also punishable by death when it involves a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man. But in reality, capital punishment is only used in very rare murder cases when the victim's family do not show mercy. Before its "caliphate" was crushed in , the Islamic State group applied a fiercely brutal form of sharia in the parts of Syria and Iraq it controlled. It ran its own courts, carried out public beheadings, stonings and amputations, pushing men suspected of being gay from the top of tall buildings.
The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore. Sharia Law Countries Sharia law countries are not secular countries Several countries use Sharia law in full or in part. Show Source. Sharia Law. Much of the country is still under the control of the Taliban and Islamic law continues to be used as the principal legal system. Pakistan restricted Islamic law to personal issues until when President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq introduced Sharia courts.
Constitutional amendments designated supreme power to the Sharia courts and declared Islamic law the principal laws of the country. Cases of women being stoned to death for alleged infidelity are not unheard of in Pakistan.
Since the creation of the kingdom in , the policies of the government of Saudi Arabia have been governed by Sharia laws. Under the Saudi laws, the government can only issue regulations that do not contradict the principles of Islamic law. Critics of Sharia law condemn its punitive nature. Aceh adopted religious law after it was granted autonomy in in a bid by Jakarta to quell a long-running separatist insurgency.
Death by stoning remains on the statute books but has not been implemented in decades, although activists claim hundreds of women are flogged every year for "immoral behaviour". Military dictator Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq introduced the widely-criticised Hudood Ordinances in as part of his sweeping Islamisation of Pakistan.
In Pakistan, Sharia courts implementing the laws run parallel to the British-based penal code but are rarely used. They cover adultery, false accusations in court, property crimes and prohibition of drugs and alcohol.
Some 12 of Nigeria's 36 states -- all in the north -- apply sharia to criminal cases. Flogging is still on the statute books as a punishment for Muslims who drink alcohol or have illicit sexual relations, but is rarely used. The punishment for adultery is technically lashes. Adultery is also punishable by death when it involves a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man.
But in reality, capital punishment is only used in very rare murder cases when the victim's family do not show mercy. Before its "caliphate" was crushed in , the Islamic State group applied a fiercely brutal form of sharia in the parts of Syria and Iraq it controlled.
It ran its own courts, carried out public beheadings, stonings and amputations, pushing men suspected of being gay from the top of tall buildings. While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Skip to main content.
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